20 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



Each pupil is given fifteen hours a week of classroom or book 

 instruction, nine hours a week of laboratory, field, shop and home 

 instruction, or twenty -four hours of instruction, and nine additional 

 hours for the support of the school and incidentally of practical 

 benefit to the pupil. Thus thirty-three hours of the pupils' time 

 each week is assigned, or a little over five hours a day, to head and 

 hand work. One-fourth of the students, or such number as the 

 Principal may determine is necessary to continue the operation 

 of the farm and shop, must remain on the farm during vacations. 

 For work required during this time students are given fair com- 

 pensation. Students of the third and fourth years may be given 

 acre plots for individual cultivation, or small farms for supervision, 

 the profits to be their own, — the profits, however, to be applied 

 first to payment of their dormitory or other expenses. Strict 

 accounts are kept. 



The second annual report of the University of Georgia, 

 November, 1911, shows that the income from the school farms 

 varied from $395 in the Ninth District to $3,716 in the First 

 District, the total farm products for the eleven districts being 

 $22,832. There is every indication that more, rather than less, 

 emphasis is to be put on the actual productive farming enterprises 

 of the students carried out on the school premises. With a proper 

 correlation of classroom and field instruction, these schools should 

 afford vocational agricultural training of a very high order. The 

 course of study in the Georgia schools extends over four years. 



County Agricultural Schools. 



Among county agricultural schools, those of Wisconsin are ex- 

 cellent types of the vocational agricultural school. The Wisconsin 

 schools are spoken of everywhere by their friends and advocates 

 as trade schools devoted to agriculture. Foreign languages are 

 omitted. Other significant omissions are algebra and geometry. 

 All are co-educational. All maintain courses of study covering a 

 period of two years — eight months each. Each receives support 

 from the State. All require for entrance that students shall have 

 completed work equal to the eighth grade. All admit students 



